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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



September, 1905 



GRILLES ^DIRECT FROM FACTORY" M A N T E LS @HjSRiii 



HMH 



$13.25 



No. 225—48x12 inches. $3.60. Retail value. $7.00 

 No. 230— +8x1+ inches, with Curtain Pole, $4.50. 



Retail value, S9.00 

 Others from S2. 50 up. Largest assortment. Division 

 Screens ami special Grilles to order 



TILES 



of Every Description for Walls, Floors, Etc 



buys this solid oak Mantel. 80 in. high, 5+ or 60 in. wide 

 28 x 16 Mirror. Heavy columns and elaborate capitals. 

 Tile facing and hearth. Club house grate. S10.U0, 



Write for catalog ol Mantels, Grates, Tiles for floors 

 and baths. Slate Laundry Tubs, Grilles, etc. It is free. 

 Or send 10 cents to pay postage on our Art Mantel Cat- 

 alog. Mantel Outfits from $12 to $200. 

 W. F. 0STEND0RF. 2417 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. £===^£ 



Uniform Temperature 



It makes no difference whether you have furnace, steam or hot water apparatus; 

 or whether it is new or old. All you need is the 



MINNEAPOLIS HEAT REGULATOR. 



It automatically controls the drafts. A change of one degree at the thermostat is 

 sufficient to operate the dampers. This device is as simple and no more expensive than a 

 good clock. It embodies economy, comfort and health. Has proven its merit for 22 years. 



Adjust 

 here 



Berwick, Pa., Jan. 17. 1902. 

 Find enclosed check for regulator. I have given it a 

 thorough trial, and find it alt you claim tor it and a very 

 useful device. Thanking; you for your courtesy for the 

 period of trial. FRANK FAUST. 



Cedar Falls, Iowa. 

 Enclosed find draft for the amount due tor regulator. 

 I am very much pleased with the regulator, and would 

 not part with it for five times what I paid for it, if I 

 could not get it otherwise. F. E. MILLER, 



Ass't Cashier, Cedar Falls National Bank. 

 Six years ago I installed one of your regulators in my house, and I cannot praise it sufficiently. I can safely say 

 it has saved me two tons of coal each season, and I have always retained an even temperature throughout the 

 house. FRANK S. SMITH, Secretary Board of Health Warwick, N. Y. 



SENT ON 30 DAYS ABSOLUTELY FREE TRIAL. 



W. R. SWEATT, Secretary, 

 Ave. and G St. Minneapolis, Minn 



JolinNackinto 

 the Toffee King 



TO prpr If it'3 MACKINTOSH'S TOFFEE, it is the delicious old English candy that is 



' ^~ ' ' ^" ■" taking America by storm. If it isn't Mackintosh's, you don't want it unless you 

 want an imitation, 



MACKINTOSH'S TOFFEE 



THE ORIGINAL OLD ENGLISH CANDY 



sold in ten-cent cartons, my name and face on every package. 



No. not a chewing candy. You break off a small bit and let it dissolve in the mouth. 



If your dealer smiles and says he hasn't got Mackintosh's, but has an imitation, if you're genuine you 

 will, of course, try another dealer. I am always ready to send my Toffee by mail. Send ten cents for 

 the first size package or ffil.60 for a large four-pound family tin, but try your dealer first. 



JOHN MACKINTOSH, 

 Dept. 198, 78 Hudson St., New York 



increased cost on work costing less than $10,- 

 ooo; the British schedule recommends it on 

 work costing less than $5,000. The provision 

 is a reasonable one. Five thousand dollars is 

 a moderate price for a house, a figure that is 

 not exceeded by many houses, and five per 

 cent, on this amounts to but $250, a sum much 

 too small to cover the work the architect has 

 to do, without taking into account compensa- 

 tion for his training and his brains, to say 

 nothing of his personal taste and skill. 



But in buildings of large cost the five per 

 cent, charge yields a handsome income. On a 

 building costing $1,000,000 the architect's fee 

 would be $50,000. A very prominent prac- 

 titioner in New York, a man whose work has 

 been largely, and very largely, in buildings of 

 great cost, figures that in a building that yields 

 him a commission of $50,000 his profit would 

 be half; in other words, he would make clear 

 and above his expenses the handsome sum of 

 $25,000. As this particular architect could 

 build a half dozen or a dozen of such build- 

 ings in a year, he could readily make a profit 

 of several hundred thousands of dollars 

 annually for as many years as the business 

 could be had. 



It is apparent, therefore, that architecture is 

 a well paid and a highly paid profession. But 

 only in exceptional instances. The architec- 

 tural directories enumerate about five thou- 

 sand architects engaged in practice in the 

 United States and Canada. Only a very small 

 proportion of these gentlemen earn incomes 

 from their profession which can rightly be 

 called great. The average earnings of the 

 average architect are often pitifully small, 

 and even many in command of good practices 

 complain of the meagerness of their compensa- 

 tion and the slightness of their incomes. The 

 income to be derived from a practice composed 

 of building small houses is very insignificant 

 compared with the effort put forth and the 

 labor involved, and this is true even if the 

 architect charge a greatly enhanced percent ige. 

 In most cases this is not only impossible, but 

 is simply not done. 



It is the erection of important buildings 

 which brings large fortunes to the architectural 

 practitioner, great office buildings, splendid 

 country houses, and important public build- 

 ings, as a large museum, a city hall or other 

 civic structure. Work of this description, to 

 be well handled — and it can be touched in no 

 other way — requires the labors of a very large 

 office force. There are several large archi- 

 tects' offices in New York which employ more 

 than a hundred men, the largest offices in the 

 country, save perhaps one or two in Chicago. 

 These men are chiefly draftsmen, and must 

 be highly skilled in their work. The number 

 employed varies somewhat from time to time, 

 according to the work in hand. Sometimes 

 an effort is made to employ as many of them 

 continuously as possible, and the best results 

 can only be had when this is done. In other 

 instances the men are employed and discharged 

 as work comes in and is finished, a system that 

 is necessarily demoralizing to esprit de corps, 

 but which seems unavoidable unless a very 

 large line of large work is obtained. 



A huge income is needed to keep such a 

 force busy; moreover, a certain sum must be 

 set aside for retaining the chief men, the heads 

 of departments, the most useful members of 

 the force, and other indispensable men who 

 must be retained whether there is work to be 

 done or not. In view of such contingencies 

 it is obvious that the two and one-half per cent, 

 of actual cost allowed by the eminent practi- 

 tioner above referred to is by no means an 

 unfair amount, and it might readily fall be- 

 low the sum needed for office expenses only. 



Thus far the discussion has been limited 

 to the somewhat abstract presentation of the 



